Ubuntu @ 1440×900 resolution in Parallels
I’ve installed Ubuntu 6.10 and thought I’d give some input on it.
Virtual insanity
True to Jamiroquai’s lyrics, it seems that I’ve been on an OS installation frenzy.
Virtualization has made it so easy to test different OSes. Right now I got 2 variations of each of the three OSes – namely Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Ubuntu. Each having a working image, and an image from when I first installed them (base installation). This should make it easier for when I bollocks any of them up and need to “reformat.”
Add the default OS (OSX) and that’s seven OS variations to play with all in all. Here’s what my Parallels folder looks like as of the moment.
It’ll be a while before this ends…
You can’t blame the Mac users in the net flooding their blogs with Tiger stuff, I for one am one of them. As each day passes, one cannot help but be pleased with how Apple is shaping their OS. I’ll be discussing the other nice little surprises I’ve found while on the new OS.
But before that, lemme get the other kwentos out of the way:
I just got a new 200GB hard drive and nice aluminum enclosure to boot. The enclosure was a great deal, considering it was the last display stock. It was aluminum, with grilles on the side (for ventilation) and can connect to a USB or FireWire port. Another bonus was a secondary FW port which allows you to put another FW device should you decide to (like an iPod for example).
I already migrated my whole music library there which freed up about 51GB in the laptop. I also set it as a scratch disk for Photoshop.